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In a historic decision, the Bogotá Council yesterday approved the draft agreement that declares a climate emergency in the city. Now the initiative must pass to the sanction of the mayor Claudia López.
The project consists of 11 articles, in which it establishes 10 mandates and 40 strategies to be followed by the current administration and the next two to mitigate the impact of climate change and generate environmental awareness among Bogota citizens.
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According to the councilor and author of the project, Susana Muhamad (Colombia Humana and UP), the article contemplates strategic decisions such as, for example, that from 2022 it will not be possible to buy a fleet of buses that operate with fossil fuels, which by the end of 2021 there is a 12-year strategic plan for the recovery of the main ecological structure.
In addition, as explained by the councilor, the project aims to protect the soils of the Sabana and the city, to establish a sustainable building code, to reuse water and use it efficiently before a project like Chingaza II, that the meat-free day be declared as a way to raise awareness about the greenhouse effect, that a route be created to finish the waste management model with which the Doña Juana landfill operates today.
Muhamad also said that he seeks that territorial planning is around water, provide information to children about climate change and why it is necessary to change the way of life, and create a district panel on climate change made up of scientists to advise the council. district in political control over the climate change situation.
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The initiative must now be approved by Mayor Claudia López for it to be an agreement of the city. This is taken for granted, if the message of “congratulations” from the Secretary of Government, Luis Ernesto Gómez, to the councilor Muhamad and the Council for the approval of the agreement is taken into account.
“Our generation must be able to unite around the great challenges of humanity,” Gomez wrote in a tweet.
And recently the Secretary of the Environment, Carolina Urrutia, had expressed her support. “This draft agreement is necessary and comes at the right time. It has successfully reflected the feelings of people from all social groups, that concern that we have for an uncertain future. We are in time to take specific considerations”, Urrutia said.
“We await the ratification and sanction of the mayor, and begin to carry out political control and the activation of the citizen movement,” said the councilor, who highlighted that the project has the support of 88,000 signatures and more than 100 organizations.
The councilor added that now comes the great challenge of implementation and assured: “The City Council and citizens today fulfilled the generation that was already born in this century, the children and young people who know that if we do not act in these 10 years, there will be no future for them. “
The project was approved in a second debate by consensus, and in the session it was agreed that all councilors would remain as co-authors.
Bogota Newsroom
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